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Therefore, the present study aimed to characterize the potential intrinsic dysconnectivity pattern of the whole brain functional networks at the voxel level using the degree centrality (DC) analysis in CTN patients.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Thirty-four patients with CTN and twenty-nine well-matched healthy controls (HCs) participated in this study. All subjects underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-MRI) examination and clinical and neuropsychologic assessments. DC is a graph theory-based measurement that represents the overall functional connectivity (FC) numbers between one voxel and other brain voxels. We first investigated brain regions exhibiting abnormal DC, and further identified their perturbation on FC with other brain regions using a seed-based FC analysis in patients with CTN. In addition, correlation analyses were performed to evaluate the relationship between the abnormal DC value and clinical variables in CTN patients.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Compared with the HCs, the patients with CTN exhibited significantly greater DC values in the right pallidum and right putamen, and lower DC values in the right lingual gyrus, right calcarine sulcus, left paracentral lobule, and left midcingulate cortex. A further seed-based FC analysis revealed that the right lingual gyrus showed decreased FC within the visual network and with other core brain networks, including the sensorimotor network, default mode network, and salience network, relative to HCs. Additionally, the left midcingulate cortex exhibited decreased FC within the middle cingulate cortex and the visual network in CTN patients. Moreover, the DC value in the left midcingulate cortex was negatively correlated with the illness duration.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The present study shows that CTN patients exhibited specific functional connectivity network alterations in the basal ganglia, visual network, and salience network, which may reflect the aberrant neural network communication in pain processing and modulation. 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